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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 08:08:58
Message-Id: 201212020806.55695.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked by Yohan Pereira
1 On Sunday 02 Dec 2012 06:39:16 Yohan Pereira wrote:
2 > On Sunday 02 Dec 2012 3:05:21 Grant Edwards wrote:
3 > > I'm trying to upgrade from a 3.2 kernel to 3.5.7, but the 3.5.7 kernel
4 > > is unusable because it always puts the keyboard into a mode where it
5 > > maps the numeric keypad to the right-hand home position (J->1, K->2,
6 > > L->3, U->4, etc.). After sshing into the machine and booting back
7 > > into 3.2, everything is fine again.
8 > >
9 > > There must have been a new kernel setting that I missed when I did a
10 > > "make oldconfig" which defaults to an unusable settings. I haven't
11 > > been able to come up with a Google search that provides anything
12 > > remotely relevent.
13 > >
14 > > Does anybody recognize this problem?
15 >
16 > Is this a laptop? with no num pad? On my laptop the numpad is mapped to the
17 > keys like you described, so when Num Lock is toggled those keys function as
18 > the num pad.
19
20 You can check if rc-update -s -v | grep numlock (or rc-status -s | grep
21 numlock) shows it being set, otherwise add it to see if this makes a
22 difference.
23 --
24 Regards,
25 Mick

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